A Live Woolly Mammoth From 1943?

After the conclusion of the WW2 Battle of Stalingrad, Nazi Party member and official photographer for the NSDAP, Holger Hildebrand, was captured
by the Red Army at the Battle of Stalingrad. He and thousands of other Wehrmacht soldiers were later sent on a death march towards Siberia; this
mammoth footage is understood to have been taken during that journey. (Hildebrand is believed to have died a prisoner of war at a Soviet forced labor
camp in late 1945. His Granddaughter later came into possession of the footage when his belongings were repatriated to Germany from Russia decades
after his death.)

My very first thought is that the idea a German POW would be allowed not only to keep his camera but, stop to film a mammoth while on death march to a
camp is beyond far feched. Then I read what the You Tube channel this is on says

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Please for the love of all that is good and holy just don't debunk this one at all.
Don't even try.

We will clone Mammoths eventually anyway, so whats the harm in letting a few people believe they were still around in the 40's?

Outside of that though, this actually reminds me of some of the footage taken from Antarctica in that time period. The name escapes me for the moment,
but it was essentially some film shot from the air by an Allied? explorer.

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The Siberian Taiga is the largest forest in the world at almost 3 million square miles. It is scarcely populated and very remote, and video aside,
reports of large “hairy elephants” emanate out of Siberia from time to time. One of the more credible stories dates to 1918 when a Russian hunter
came upon huge tracks that he could not identify. Intrigued, he decided to follow them, and deeper in the forest he went. For days he followed these
large unusual tracks and a considerable amount of dung, until he arrived at a clearing where he could finally observe the animals responsible for the
tracks. There were two of them. He had seen elephants in photographs and that is what they looked like to him; even though he had not imagined them so
big, he would later admit. He described two big white curved tusks and a dark body with long chestnut color covered hair. The hunter told his story in
1920 to M.L Gallon, in charge of the French Consulate in Vladivostok. Gallon when he later recounted the tale found it amusing that the hunter did not
know what a mammoth was, and simply stated that he saw two hairy elephants. Local tradition dating back to the 1500′s call the animal “the
mountain of meat”.

Concerning the disclaimer on the YouTube uploader's page, I believe that is a blanket statement about his channel in general, not about this
particular video per se.

I have only this to add: Either this video was not made in 1943 but much more recently and is VERY good CGI -OR- this video was shot in 1943 and is
real. There is no in-between. I don't believe this could be 1943 CGI technology, period.

Looks pretty darn real to me. Movements look natural and to scale. Quality of recording is of course not great but I can see the shine on the
animal's coat. I think Asia is plenty big enough to hide things like this from us.

Originally posted by HomerinNC
I'm calling hoax on this, why would a POW be carrying a camera on a death march, to get pics and film of the view?

When you're on a death march, you're not always told you're on a death march. Did they strip the prisoners naked and walk them into Siberia? I
think its plausible that he could have been allowed the camera. What's that going to hurt?

Also it should be noted that the guy who (they claim) shot this was a German War Photographer who was captured in Russia. So it may in fact be
possible that this footage was shot before he was taken captive and it was only discovered much later when the camera was returned to his descendant.

There have always been stories about Mammoths out there (thanks dude, forgot about that old story with the hunters) as well as this, i knew i'd
remember eventually..

1005 Hours- I alter altitude to 1400 feet and execute a
sharp left turn to better examine the valley below. It is
green with either moss or a type of tight knit grass. The
light here seems different. I cannot see the Sun anymore. We
make another left turn and we spot what seems to be a large
animal of some kind below us. It appears to be an elephant!
NO!!! It looks more like a mammoth! This is incredible! Yet,
there it is! Decrease altitude to 1000 feet and take
binoculars to better examine the animal. It is confirmed -
it is definitely a mammoth-like animal! Report this to base
camp.

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